Archiving in Trello and closing boards

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Zack demonstrates how the archiving feature works in Trello and how this can help organize your post-production workflow in your Trello boards. You will learn how to archive individual cards using both the menu function and the archiving hot key, archive lists, and how to archive an entire Trello board, all of which can still be accessed for future use.

- [Instructor] Inevitably you'll get to a point…where you're done with a project, or even a specific task…in your ongoing project, and you're gonna want…to clean up your boards.…Trello offers a very useful and simple feature…that's called archiving.…You can archive individual cards, entire lists,…and you can also close entire boards.…And the best part is that nothing is permanently deleted…and everything can be restored if necessary.…So we're here at our main board, and let's say…that you decided that you want to start cleaning out…some of the clutter and get rid of cards that are complete.…

There's two really quick ways to be able…to archive your cards.…The first of which is to open your card,…go to the right side menu where it says Archive…and as soon as you click it, you're gonna see…this little banner show up that said that…This card is archived.…I'm gonna close this card, and I'm gonna go over here,…and I'm gonna see that my card is missing.…An even easier way to be able to do this…is using hotkey c.…So all you have to do is hover over your card,…

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9/30/2016

Efficient project management and team communication are the keys to meeting the ever-shrinking deadlines of post-production. Trello is the perfect tool to coordinate editors, assistant editors, producers, vendors, and entire creative teams, whether located in the same physical space or scattered across the globe.

Trello for Video Post-Production is a hands-on learning experience in using Trello, Google Drive, and Slack to build your post-production project management system from the ground up—all the way from planning to the delivery of your final masters. This system can apply to scripted projects, unscripted, documentary, reality, and almost any other kind of project imaginable. Filmmaker and professional editor Zack Arnold shows how to create boards and add new cards, attach documents, share media, assign due dates, and link to several different cloud-based storage solutions like Google Drive and Dropbox. Each step of the process is broken down in detail so you understand how to use Trello to its fullest potential. With these tips, you can finally achieve the dream of a post-production workflow that minimizes busywork, paperwork, and email and maximizes your time to be creative.

Topics include:

Using the Trello interface and boards, lists, and cards

Creating teams in Trello

Attaching files to cards

Linking and filtering cards

Integrating with Google Drive and Slack

Organizing your boards, lists, and cards

Building your main board

Breaking scripts and stories into lists and cards

Managing revisions, specs, and deliverables

Organizing projects with multiple videos

Mapping your workflow

Skill Level Intermediate

3h 15m

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Q: This course was updated on 01/23/2018. What changed?

A: We added one video describing four new powerful plugins for Trello: Trellists, Scrum for Trello, CardCounter for Trello, and Pro for Trello.